Poor Jim Bunning. He had to miss a college basketball game rather than debate whether hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their jobs can continue to pay their bills and put food on the table.
Funny how Jim Bunning didn't care about deficits when he introduced a bill authorizing George W. Bush to invade Iraq based on a bunch of trumped-up horseshit. He didn't care about deficits when voting for the Bush tax cuts. But when it comes to help for Americans who need it, he's on the wrong side every single time:
* 2005 -- Voted WITH the credit-card industry on the bankruptcy bill.
* 2005 -- Voted WITH oil companies by giving them more tax breaks.
* 2006 -- Voted FOR higher deficits by extending the Bush Tax Cuts.
* 2007 -- Voted AGAINST children by opposing S-CHIP.
* 2008 -- Voted AGAINST helping people facing foreclosure.
* 2009 -- Voted AGAINST women by opposing the Ledbetter Act.
* 2009 -- Voted AGAINST children again by opposing S-CHIP.
* 2010 -- Voted AGAINST reducing the debt by opposing the Debt Commission.
Kentucky, the state which for some bizarre reason sends this guy back to the Senate every six years, has the 4th lowest per capita income. Only Mississippi, West Virginia, and Arkansas are worse off. More than one in ten Kentucky workers is unemployed. And yet Jim Bunning opposes help for his own constituents (if you want to assume that the citizens of Kentucky are still his constituents, which is doubtful).
As the New York Times noted yesterday, Bunning didn't care about the impact of unemployment compensation on deficits while George W. Bush was in the White House. His "come to Jesus" moment on deficits seems to have miraculously coincided with the inauguration of a Democratic President:
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